The Art of BioHacking or How to make Cheese and Wine, HEAD, Geneva

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18 - 22. February, 2013 - Dataclub / Option Interaction / HEAD / Geneva

Overview

Mentor

Dr. Marc Dusseiller

Interests: Daphnia-Hacking, Euglena burgers, BioElectronics, low-cost diagnostics, building DIWO community bio-labs

Short Bio: Dr. Marc R. Dusseiller is a transdisciplinary scholar, lecturer for micro- and nanotechnology, cultural facilitator and artist. He works in an integral way to combine science, art and education. He performs DIY (do-it-yourself) workshops in lo-fi electronics, hardware hacking, microscopy, music and robotics. He was co-organizing Dock18, Room for Mediacultures, diy* festival (Zürich, Switzerland), KIBLIX 2011 (Maribor, Slovenia), workshops for artists, schools and children as the former president (2008-12) of the Swiss Mechatronic Art Society, SGMK. Currently, he is developing means to perform bio- and nanotechnology research and dissemination, Hackteria | Open Source Biological Art, in a DIY fashion in kitchens, ateliers and in developing countries.

Location

Dataclub / Option Interaction HEAD, Geneva général-dufour 2

Schedule

Working times: 9h30-12h30 / 14h-17h

Day 0 - Monday

  • individual preparations

Preparatory compulsary readings:

  • New Art/Science Affinities free for download. Please read through it briefly and select one article/project that inspires you and present it during the introduction round with a few sentences, what it is and why it inspired you.

Day 1 - Tuesday

Morning

  • Introduction, Hackteria | Open Source Biological Art
  • personal introduction, Dr. Marc Dusseiller
  • short group introductions


Afternoon

Setting up the lab

  • un-boxing workshop | A BioHacker's Lab-in-a-Box

Guest Skype Lecture: Dr. Špela Petrič (SI), on "Genes, DNA, SNP mutations and the future of the human species"


Day 2 - Wednesday

Morning

  • DNA extraction experiments
  • Shopping aux marché aux puces
  • Shopping food and other stuff


Afternoon

  • finish setting up the DIWO BioHackArt lab

Cooking things

  • Agar is the Media!
  • let's start cooking...


Day 3 - Thursday

Morning

Seeing things

  • let's build a few DIY microscopes
  • Macro photography


Afternoon

Growing things

  • BioPrinting
  • Making Wine

16h: group discussions: sections from New Art/Science Affinities

17h: Guest Lecture: Dr. Sachiko Hirosue (CH/JP) and biodesign.cc, on "Art/Science collaborations, BioArt, BioEthics and BioDesign for the real world"

Day 4 - Friday

Morning

The Art of Documentation

  • BioPrinting
  • Making Wine
  • DIWO BioArtHack lab


Afternoon

  • Documenting process based work.
  • Media: Video, Photo, Drawings & Sketches, Instructions, Comics,


Killing things

tba: Guest Skype Lecture: Andy Gracie (UK/ES), short CV on Hackteria, more info soon...

  • Wrap up and discussions

Further Links and Readings

put stuff here

Participants

Minhee

  • network culture
  • communication
  • page 61

Vincent

  • Light & Sound -> Installation
  • Data
  • page 11
  • page 136

Sharon

  • cubes
  • video, 3D
  • page 89
  • page 99
  • lol

Alan

  • IT
  • Installations, digital arts & sculpture
  • amateur science
  • optical physical phenomena
  • teaching

Hervé

  • art before computers
  • virtual painter
  • teaching

Dimitri

  • electronics / programming
  • machine drawing (+)
  • 3D printing
  • pages 24 - 26 (Marius Watz)


Blackboard Notes

Liste 01.jpg Liste 02.jpg


The Art of Documentation

Strawberry DNA exctraction recipe ♥ :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOpu4iN5Bh4


Home Experiment: banana DNA extraction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlzERP3KGZ0


Art Science Bangalore

http://vimeo.com/41412416


Fruit Fermentation Video Tutorial, IB:SC

http://vimeo.com/13800199


Kapitän Biopunk - Intelligent Bacteria ; Saccharomyces Cerevisiae

http://vimeo.com/25495671


KAPITÄN BIOPUNK: FERMENTATION MADNESS at EDIBLE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0m6RDDYiR0


MOIST SENSE | Installation - Mix Media | LIFEPATCH.ORG 2012

http://vimeo.com/56733904

Commons

HEAD BioHacking Commons